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her peers. By reading her book, one can understand why the quest to achieve civil rights is and was important for African America...

the touching but depressing mood of the work. First, portraying 1950s America in such a dark light may be difficult for modern au...

This essay contrasts and compares J.D. Salinger's coming of age novel Catcher in the Rye with Harper Lee's account of a Southern c...

brutally and perhaps unfairly with death. The work is moving. Uncle Antoine, carefully acted by Jean Duceppe, is a pathetic char...

cultural heritage decides to leave. That in and of itself is rather brave. Thus, one sees a very painful growth into womanhood as ...

are not all that uncommon for an adolescent. In fact, many teens feel they are alone and while Holden experiences a deep sense of ...

life of misery which was to befall me" (Defoe). Crusoes defiance of his father relates also to his willfulness toward God, who, ...

hunter and a brave individual is the most important element of a boy becoming a man. Demonstrating that a person is brave and ab...

we are all but immediately taken to a place where the boy is completely betrayed by that adult world. In the beginning he is proud...

This paper analyzes Christian's short story collection, Rain on a Tin Roof. The author focuses on details of Christian's coming o...

by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...

the conditions of life. If he were a young boy with no responsibilities he would have been focused on his environment in a very im...

direct order--never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons fo...

as well, "Maya is permanently puzzled by the adult world. Her grandmother is extremely religious and strict, the children should b...

with the color of Oz, which is lush and green. In Oz, Dorothy has many adventures, but keeps working to find a way to get back ho...

In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...

In four pages this book that concerns 1940s British Columbia and the conflicts that arise from the coming of age is discussed. Th...

sexuality of the individual. However, FGM is far more drastic and damaging than male circumcision. A more appropriate analogy woul...

This face is made clear when the author writes about the remoteness of Uncle Angus cabin from other signs of human civilization. L...

kills them when hes trying to pet them, not realizing his own strength. His strength, in fact, is his downfall - when he first mee...

The Hamlet is Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. This is a "dark world" that is haunted by the past, particularly the legacy of sl...

The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" (Yeats PG). This describes the inner workings of...

this story that Dees mother has always secretly longed for acceptance from Dee. Mrs. Johnson was always amazed by her daughters "...

a lady....

father -- by playing creatively on and within its margins" (239). According to Gwin, in the patriarchal order Faulkner has establ...

no one save an old manservant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years" (Faulkner). To the outside wor...

of comedic elements. As Addie Bundren lays dying her son Cash is busy building her coffin. This is, in many ways, a very powerf...

appeared to have a definite problem in separating fact from fantasy -- and a patent refusal to accept national transformations (su...

In seven pages this paper examines how women are depicted as stereotypes in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and As I Lay Dy...

also clear that he has suffered at the hands of the townspeople. Mostly, Hightower wants to be left alone and suffer in his emotio...